Assumptions for hypothetical mapping

We have counting appendages on our bodies that may serve to fix enumerations and signal the recall of experiences. They are called fingers, toes, arms, and legs.

As our development of writing developed, counts could be indicated by marks, and things counted could be indicated by an icon.

The earliest writing apparently recorded inventories of goods. It was a short step to the realization that a symbol of a cow might also stand for the same consonantal-vowel sound occurring in an expression for something else.

Numbering things and creating icons for speech elements are inseparable events in history.

When letters developed out of the early pictographs, they tended to be used to indicate numbers as a secondary function. Greek numbering used accented Greek letters for numbers. Roman numerals were also established letters, IVXLCDM.

A lack of universal symbols for numbers didn't prevent the development of numbering systems such as to base five, ten, twelve, twenty, sixty. There is also the suggestion that proto-indo-Europeans used a base eight system, with nine as a later 'new' number. The body and its appendages aided in the determination of a counting base.

From this set of developments, on top of an 'Us -Them' vowel numbering distinction, there was a numbering facility recognized in our appendages. The earliest counting concept utilized a base-eight.

My assumption is that vowels underpinned the first counting distinction, and consonantal distinctions were heavily weighted by rank authority and fear. Under more settled conditions of proto-civilization, both authority and fear went through an enumeration process, each condition being graduated consonantly with distinctive syllables (i.e. more precisely defined), and weighted in a 'proto'-numerical sense.

My assumption is that as early civilization advanced, the base number went from 8 through 10 through 12, with the Sumerian 60 as a curious over-shoot, and that equity could be sufficiently expressed through base 12 although that is not an apparent idea until the final current form of the English alphabet is examined through mapping.

In fact, my assumption is that a sense of equity and balance has been a motivator to the current stage of development of the English alphabet. We need a indicative capacity to express a full range of emotion and inquiry, and an need to assert an equality to our environment. Our faith, hope, and sense of confidence depend upon this equity. Our English alphabet when mapped to the body shows an enumerated equity of Self to Environment. It doesn't matter that we have a fully developed mathematics. A modern sense of equity must also be congruent with ancient systems.